Clear poultry manure, lightly sprinkled with coal ashes or 

 land plaster to fix the ammonia is worth a dollar a barrel. 



If your method of feeding gives good results don't change 

 it because you happen to read of someone else, who feeds dif- 

 ferently. 



The fool knows it all to begin with. The wise man learns 

 by his experience. The wisest man learns by his experience 

 and the experience of others. 



Read this book over time and again until you have thor- 

 oughly assimilated it. The closer you follow its teachings the 

 more dollars you will make. 



To get rid of the neighbor's cat, explode a torpedo under 

 her tail whenever she comes around. This will scare the cat. 

 but do her no permanent harm. The neighbor will appreciate 

 the joke, and you will get rid of the cat and keep your neigh- 

 bor's good will at the same time. 



After a hen has laid an egg she cackles. Go and do thou 

 likewise ! If your birds have taken a prize at the county fair, 

 cackle. If they have made a big egg record, cackle. If you 

 have some fine stock to sell, cackle. In these days publicity 

 and prosperity go together. 



If you are in the business for eggs, and eggs alone, the 

 sooner you get rid of your surplus "crowers" the better. T 

 know a man who disposes of his cockerels, as soon as he can 

 distinguish them from the pullets, for 10 cents each. He claims 

 he is better off to sell them for this sum than to keep them. 



Some think the shape of the egg determines the sex of the 

 chick that is to be hatched. This is a mistake. The shape of 

 the egg has no effect upon the sex of the germ is contains. A 

 more plausible theory is that the shape of the egg will in- 

 fluence the shape of the chick that begins its life in it a long 

 egg giving a long, rangy chick, and a short, round egg a more 

 blocky chick. This is worth investigating. 



Don't be in too much of a hurry to have your chicks begin 

 to roost. Put the roost in their house one foot from the floor 

 and let them find out what it is there for themselves. Some 

 adventurous chick will discover it after a while and get upon 

 it ; others will follow, and after a few weeks the whole flock 

 will be roosting at night. Should there be any laggards drive 

 them about with the soft end of the broom one or two nights 

 until they are glad to get on the roost with the rest. 



